The Groove
Saturday March 9th, 2024 with Elorious Cain
EMILY BRISK 10: Dora's hunch

A month after the information session, the task force had been reduced in numbers and formally renamed "The Emily Brisk Task Force" after the woman that had almost lost her life over it. It had especially spooked chief profiler Dora Fuentes. For the first time in her 21 year career she was stumped. She really didn't like that interview with Jacob Samuel. She didn't like that way he would eventually disappear. Even with her busy schedule, she would find time to regularly visit the recovering Emily Brisk at the North Shore University Hospital. Nancy recalls a visit to her sister where she had glowing comments about the visits from Ms. Fuentes, " Ms. Fuentes is wonderful! I love her visits. Ms. Fuentes doesn't come to question my story or anything! I tell her that I can't talk about what happened to me. She completely understands! She just gives me moral support. It is part of an outreach program to assist F.B.I. family members affected by cases. She said that she wants to help me fully heal from the whole ordeal!" Nancy remembers how she couldn't tell Emily that agents were guarding her 24 hours a day because there was a tangible possibility that another attempt would be made on her life. One agent even suggested that an attempt might be imminent! She knew that Dora Fuentes was one of the F.B.I's best profilers. There must have been more going on. She also didn't tell Emily that protocole dictated that she wasn't part of the task force any longer. She was too personally close to it. She was back in the Boston office working on white collar crimes. Two months after that visit, Dora Fuentes would suddenly appear at Nancy's desk in Boston offering her a glossy photograph. Dora smiled and said, " You deserve a copy of this also, Special Agent Brisk" The photograph contained Nancy, her fiance Tom, Emily and some young teenager standing and looking ahead. Printed below each image there were the names of each person, with the exception of the teenager who was simply identified as "unknown person!!". Nancy freaked for a second before asking: "Where did you get this picture? I don't even remember posing for it!!" Dora quickly asked Nancy, "Do you know who that teenager is?" Nancy: "Of course I do! That is that 'Charmaine' girl that ended up causing so much havoc!" Dora informed Nancy that she was the only other person apart from Emily that could identify the girl. The photograph was from The Department Of Homeland Security and it had been taken at some touristic spot in Manhattan like One World Trade Center. It was gifted to the F.B.I. Evidently the folks at Homeland Security spent weeks trying to identify that girl to absolutely no avail! Nobody there was impressed. When Dora gave Emily a copy of the photograph there was evidently a sudden transformation. Emily couldn't shut up about the whole experience, Charmaine, everything. Emily kept excitedly going on about the fact she finally had a picture of 'Charmaine'. With Emily's consent, Dora had recorded over 30 hours of descriptions and observations about that other America. Dora was also there in Boston with Special Agent Orin Bishop and Special Agent Mark Richardson who were already interviewing people and searching for evidence at the South Bay Center. Nancy just had to ask Dora, "Are you really going to help Emily fully heal from the whole ordeal? Or was that just a tactic? Emily is my skin and blood. Apart from Tom, she is all I have! I'm afraid of loosing her! I honestly don't know how to help Emily. There's no information out there about how to help victims of interdimensional travel! This could mark her for life! I'm really worried that she'll never heal from this." Dora escorted Nancy to private lounge at the Boston office and comforted and encouraged her. Dora was very much interested in helping Emily completely heal. She also started briefing Nancy: " I can spot a liar a mile away. It is my business to spot dishonesty or even the hint of exaggeration. I believe everything that Emily says about her experiences in that other America. The information is extremely valuable to the whole investigation. What I cannot accept is that radio she had. How did she get it?! It bothers me intensely!" Nancy quickly interjected: " I bought her an identical radio to that at that mall the day she returned! She practically begged me to buy for her." Dora added: "And according to Emily it ended up being the very same radio she had in that other America. That doesn't make any sense at all! This whole business about that radio disturbs me. How could you buy Emily the very same radio she acquired in that other America here at the South Bay Center? That, according to everything we now know is impossible! I firmly believe that Emily ended up on some island in the Atlantic in that other world. How did she get there? How did that radio get there? Somebody put that radio there? Are these people responsible for putting Emily there? That is too strange to accept. It is like a tell of something else that is potentially devious and malicious. We have come to get and examine that radio. I need you to take me to Emily's condo so that we can retrieve it and search for any leads. I believe that Emily is just an innocent victim. I have a hunch that Emily's experiences are just part of something bigger and more dangerous! The F.B.I. has to work hard and fast to solve it. We may not have very much time." As Dora was saying that, Nancy felt an ice cold chill running down her spine.